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[Koffeegirl]

Wow, this thread is moving so fast, I can't keep up

So so close to the Inquisition--I think it's time for my media blackout although I will keep checking in for the fanfic,  and artwork of Cullen--also, with the game coming out we are going to be at 4000 count in no time.

[Raylis]

OK, here is an excerpt from what I am working on.  I am a poet more than a prose writer, so let me know if it sounds...awkward.  I have been practicing writing for a while to get into it and try to get better, but every time I reread, it always sounds kinda...moronic to me.

 

Anyway, hope you like it!

 

Spoiler

Cullen’s boots crunched the snow as he walked. The sound was pleasant to him, as was the chilly afternoon air. He had been stuffed in his solar for hours, answering missives until his hand ached and his eyes swam. It was good to be outside.

The keep was quieter than usual. The cold kept most inside and the afternoon was filled with the constant drip of melting snow falling from the roof of the keep and the branches of trees. Cullen was convinced this was the end of bad weather, the clear sky heralding the onset of spring. Though, in the mountains that surrounded their keep, one could never be too certain.

He heard laughter ahead of him. His good mood was lightened even further as he realized it was children, likely enjoying the last of the snow. He smiled as he approached the sound, but his smile faltered somewhat as the scene came into view.

Ciara was standing in the middle of the children, her ebony staff held high above her head. The children were dancing around her and at first, he was unsure why. Then, he saw the ground around them erupt in miniature geysers of snow, the children shrieking with laughter as they ran to jump in them and be lifted a few feet off the ground, surrounded by swirling snow.

Cullen held his breath, his first instinct to stop this. Using magic in such way around small, non-mage children was not something he agreed with. They needed to learn that magic was not something to be trusted and, barring that, at least not something to be taken lightly.

Before he could move closer, a hand touched his shoulder. He turned and saw that Dorian stood slightly behind him, his deep golden skin glowing in the cold, his breath fogging the air in front of his smiling face. Dorian’s voice carried that smile, and Cullen noted a hint of awe as he spoke. “She is magnificent, isn’t she?”

Cullen started to respond, but instead, turned back to the scene before him. Ciara’s long chestnut hair lay in waves around her shoulders, glittering with snow dust. Her nose and cheeks were red and her eyes sparkled with delight as she watched the children. She wore a long winter robe, grey velvet with a deep grey lining of thick fur. Her hands were gloved in red leather and the bottom of her scarlet robe peaked out from beneath the warmer fabric.

Cullen continued to watch her. Her eyes were a deep grey, almost the color of her robe. He had been accosted by that steel grey stare enough to know that the color added a coolness to her countenance. Her eyes reminded him of a sword in the darkness, a pair of blades that drank in the night. When her dark eyebrows drew down in consternation, those grey eyes seemed to slice through him, merciless and unforgiving.

The woman before seemed a different creature to the one he was accustomed to. Her grey eyes were shining, a mixture of life and softness pouring out of them. She almost glowed in the midst of the snow and laughing children, her lips creating the first smile he had ever seen from the woman.

Dorian was right. She was magnificent.

The mage removed his hand from Cullen’s shoulder and walked forward so they were side by side. “In Tevinter, she would have been a queen. Men would have courted her fiercely for her beauty and her skills. Her magic is so beautiful, so rare.” The mage sighed loudly. “Here, she has had to hide her talents, always ashamed of who she is. It is only now that she is beginning to wake up, to come to life. It is a marvelous thing to see.”

Cullen shifted uncomfortably. “Magic is dangerous, Dorian. It can lead to terrible things if it is not checked.”

Dorian looked at him, his eyes suddenly bitter. “Life is a marvel, my friend. All life. The Maker gives a rare and wonderful gift to this woman, and you insist she must be ashamed of her very nature.”

“Not ashamed. Only cautious.”

Dorian shook his head. “The Maker has blessed you with strength and endurance. Can you not remember running as fast as you could as a child? Jumping, climbing, and yelling as loud as your lungs allowed you? Imagine now that you your whole life, you were forced to run at only half your speed, your legs covered in heavy weights so that you could never jump too high nor swim too far. Imagine that, Templar.”

Cullen shook his head. “It is not that simple and you know it. I know what the Circle does to mages. I have actually been there, seen it. It is a necessity, despite its faults. Mages have difficulties beyond anything we do, whatever their intentions. They cannot be allowed the freedoms of non-mages because the world holds for them terrible temptations with terrible consequences that go far beyond themselves.” He rubbed his forehead, tired of this same argument. He looked back at Ciara, his voice softening. “If she were to use her power without thought, even for a moment, she could destroy an entire village. If she were to love or desire anything, her fear of losing it could expose her to the whispering of demons. She must always be cautious, always reserved, and always alone in this world. She know this, and accepts it. Why can’t you?”

Dorian was silent for a moment. “Because I want to be alive…truly alive. Don’t you?”

Cullen shrugged. “Perhaps I did once. Now, I am content to do my duty and guard my heart.” His brows furrowed at his own words and his cheeks were suddenly burning. Maker, why did I say that?

Dorian looked at him sharply. His expression smoothed and an annoyingly knowing look spread across his countenance. “The world grows more fragile each day commander. The very sky around us is ripping apart. Live while you have the chance, my friend.”

Cullen turned and walked back towards the keep, too troubled to answer.

I LOVE your description of her eyes. Also, you teach/TA a research paper writing class? That's freaking amazing. I admire your skill and ability.   I get panic attacks just thinking about writing research papers...

[timebean]

I LOVE your description of her eyes. Also, you teach/TA a research paper writing class? That's freaking amazing. I admire your skill and ability.   I get panic attacks just thinking about writing research papers...

Well, I have been doing that for many years.  Science writing is pretty easy...you know, just be clear and concise.  You learn to carve out unnecessary chunks and state things in way that easy and straightforward, with good logical flow.  I can cut papers in half most of the time just getting rid of "fluff".

 

But creative writing is infinitely harder.  To convey emotion?  To try to capture what someone is feeling?  To create empathy?  Gah!

 

And even worse is action and smut. To try to keep the reader engaged while trying to explain what the hell someone is doing!!??  That is SOOOOOO hard for me!  I always have these long paragraphs of "she put her left arm against his right arm and they...pressed their arms together and then...shifted them...to the right... and then they...fell forward and...rolled around..."  They always sound like horrible directions for how to drive a car or something!!! 

[Panda]

I think I will start the Inquisition with Tamarin Lavellan or Michal Trevelyan. I don't want to fail with Milica so I don't want to play her first and I want to wait for DLC/patch of qunari hairstyles before playing qunari (just maybe that's coming..).

 

I'm not sure which one I want to start though. Michal would be my privileged noble who is very Pro-Chantry and believes he's second coming of Andraste, I'm planning on romancing Cass with him. Tamarin.. I have changed him a little what I first planned but he's pretty proud and power-hungry Dalish. I want to base him little on Thranduil XD So instead of hating that elfness he will embrace it, death to shemlen!

[Ananka]

*snip*

 

I'm out of likes, so LIKE!

I fully agree.

[Lieutenant Kurin]

Well, I have been doing that for many years.  Science writing is pretty easy...you know, just be clear and concise.  You learn to carve out unnecessary chunks and state things in way that easy and straightforward, with good logical flow.  I can cut papers in half most of the time just getting rid of "fluff".

 

But creative writing is infinitely harder.  To convey emotion?  To try to capture what someone is feeling?  To create empathy?  Gah!

 

And even worse is action and smut. To try to keep the reader engaged while trying to explain what the hell someone is doing!!??  That is SOOOOOO hard for me!  I always have these long paragraphs of "she put her left arm against his right arm and they...pressed their arms together and then...shifted them...to the right... and then they...fell forward and...rolled around..."  They always sound like horrible directions for how to drive a car or something!!! 

I think that was more 'How to play Patty Cake' badly...

[Asperath]

Maker, this thread is starting to move really fast now.

I just can't help myself the the spoiler gifs/pics though    at least I don't know what they're saying

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

Maker, this thread is starting to move really fast now.

I just can't help myself the the spoiler gifs/pics though 
 at least I don't know what they're saying

 

Lol, spoilers are freaking addictive. I must know all the things! I need to employ someone to restrain me so I don't ruin the game for myself.

[HalesBlack]

Lol, spoilers are freaking addictive. I must know all the things! I need to employ someone to restrain me so I don't ruin the game for myself.

 

Well... If you have a partner, he/she could 'restrain you'.... with great respect. 

[Lilaeth]

Cullen & identical twin brother.

I have spent hours meditating on Cullen having a twin... 

[john-in-france]

If anyone is interested, I found out that the surname Trevelyan is Cornish gaelic. So if you are interested in names that fit with it here is a small sample.

[john-in-france]

I have spent hours meditating on Cullen having a twin... 

 

That would definitely be...interesting...cough.

 

Out of likes again....LIKE.

[the inquisitor94]

Sorry for being a little terse earlier. I was going to kickboxing. Basically, it's like MMG/Artemis said. There's no toolkit for DA2, so you can't make up new scenes, just reskin existing ones. It's fairly straight forward to swap out the heads and bodies of your followers for a given save game and just play the game that way. I can give you pointers if you're interested in playing around with it for PC. You can also change some NPCs and reskin the weapons and do a few other fancy things. These are less straightforward. 

 

And that's the true meaning of vanity, pride and ego-centrism. Cullen stands to himself and will be there to help him

 

Btw love the pic haahahahah

[wiccame]

I have spent hours meditating on Cullen having a twin... 

Lol it's evil but I have the head swap Cullen to Anders so my Anders looks like Cullen, but I still have Cullen as Cullen and I sort of headcanon  them as long lost twins who wont acknowledge it and are disgusted by it. My Anders romanced Hawke tends to make that hatred of one another worse by dragging Anders along to the gallows while she gushes over Cullen.

[LolaLei]

God damn, why aren't any of these exclusive DAI gameplay previews looking at the hair properly, they speed through it like grease lightning! How are we supposed to get a good look at the available styles when they bomb through like that.

 

Gotta say though, I'm not all that taken with any of the ones I've seen so far.

[Potato Cat]

God damn, why aren't any of these exclusive DAI gameplay previews looking at the hair properly, they speed through it like grease lightning! How are we supposed to get a good look at the available styles when they bomb through like that.
 
Gotta say though, I'm not all that taken with any of the ones I've seen so far.

Not gonna lie, this picture is pretty close to how I want my Inquisitor to look.

With an Emma Caulfield face, brown eyes and redder vallaslin, I'd be pretty happy, (okay, that sounds like a lot, but I still think it's pretty close ). Maybe I'll go for the ponytail that was on one of the NPCs in the Freemen demos? And maybe a darker blonde too.

To be honest, my biggest problem is for my Esmerelda, because the hairstyle I'm looking at for her would be the one I'd chose for her Hawke. And we can't be having that, can we? Even if they look nothing alike at all, they can't have the same hair!!!

[LolaLei]

Not gonna lie, this picture is pretty close to how I want my Inquisitor to look.

 

 

That's probably one of the nicer hairstyles I've seen so far, along with the bun... they're all very "meh" though. I'm a little salty that the braids didn't make it into the game, I really wanted the one that was on the female Dwarf head. I hope we can at least find some way to mod the hair like we could in DA2.

 

*Edit* As for my Hawke, it seems his hairstyle wasn't brought back for DAI so I'll probably give him the undercut.

[Potato Cat]

That's probably one of the nicer hairstyles I've seen so far, along with the bun... they're all very "meh" though. I'm a little salty that the braids didn't make it into the game, I really wanted the one that was on the female Dwarf head. I hope we can at least find some way to mod the hair like we could in DA2.
 
*Edit* As for my Hawke, it seems his hairstyle wasn't brought back for DAI so I'll probably give him the undercut.

Yeah I'm not that bothered by the hairstyles myself. There's some nice ones, but a lot of them I honestly just wouldn't use myself. Off the top of my head, I really like the one with the shaved side we saw on the female human warrior in the Fallow Mire, but I just can't see myself ever picking it for one of my Inquisitors. I also like the pixie cut, but same problem. I forsee problems hairing my dwarf now that the only really braided option is the bun, (stolen by Harding by the way, which really discourages me from taking it lol), but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

[LolaLei]

Yeah I'm not that bothered by the hairstyles myself. There's some nice ones, but a lot of them I honestly just wouldn't use myself. Off the top of my head, I really like the one with the shaved side we saw on the female human warrior in the Fallow Mire, but I just can't see myself ever picking it for one of my Inquisitors. I also like the pixie cut, but same problem. I forsee problems hairing my dwarf now that the only really braided option is the bun, (stolen by Harding by the way, which really discourages me from taking it lol), but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

 

Yeah, I don't like that weird braid option doesn't do much for me lol.

[Milan92]

That's probably one of the nicer hairstyles I've seen so far, along with the bun... they're all very "meh" though. I'm a little salty that the braids didn't make it into the game, I really wanted the one that was on the female Dwarf head. I hope we can at least find some way to mod the hair like we could in DA2.

 

*Edit* As for my Hawke, it seems his hairstyle wasn't brought back for DAI so I'll probably give him the undercut.

 

Liked for undercut.

 

I'm giving my inquisitor that hairstyle

[Potato Cat]

Yeah, I don't like that weird braid option doesn't do much for me lol.

Me neither. It's nice from some angles, I suppose, (not so much from the important one, face on), but it's the one that seems most 'dwarfish' to me. The longer and shorter ones would just look odd, I fear. Ugh, dwarf problems!

To be honest, I might just scrap my dwarf and go for another elf to go with Iron Bull instead. There was a nice fan art of that, I suppose! Or maybe try Solas if he perks my interest.

[wiccame]

Although the CC looks pretty good with lots of options, I still fear that no matter what I create, they will all look relatively the same. All the sliders are great but I don't really see much extreme changes in them and I am worried that no matter how 'good' I think I have made my character, I can bet that the npcs will have better skin tones, hair textures and just generally be better pixilated or whatever.

[Potato Cat]

Although the CC looks pretty good with lots of options, I still fear that no matter what I create, they will all look relatively the same. All the sliders are great but I don't really see much extreme changes in them and I am worried that no matter how 'good' I think I have made my character, I can bet that the npcs will have better skin tones, hair textures and just generally be better pixilated or whatever.

Ugh that one NPC that always looks somewhat similar to your character, but better. Hate that ******. Lol

[LolaLei]

Although the CC looks pretty good with lots of options, I still fear that no matter what I create, they will all look relatively the same. All the sliders are great but I don't really see much extreme changes in them and I am worried that no matter how 'good' I think I have made my character, I can bet that the npcs will have better skin tones, hair textures and just generally be better pixilated or whatever.

 

Don't forget there are advanced facial customisation options too beyond just the sliders, in theory we should be able to make ourselves look not-NPC like at least, lol.

[john-in-france]

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